Si jo tant vif, mon fié i serra.”
[791] Geoffrey Gaimar, Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, i. 52;
“De male mort pussent morir
Li Burgoinon et li François,
Si souzget soient as Englois!”
Cf. the use of the word English in Orderic and Suger which I have commented on in N. C. vol. v. p. 835.
[792] Will. Malms. iv. 333. “Tanta vis erat animi, ut quodlibet sibi regnum promittere auderet. Denique ante proximam diem mortis interrogatus ubi festum suum in natali teneret, respondit Pictavis, quod comes Pictavensis, Jerosolymam ire gestiens, ei terram suam pro pecunia invadaturus dicebatur.” See above, [p. 313].
[793] Geoffrey Gaimar, u. s.;
“Li rois par gab li avoit dit;
Et cil come fel le requit